Staff Software Developer

• The Release Operations Developer reports to the manager in the Release Management team. Release Manager, in DevOps, is responsible for scheduling, planning, and controlling the software's development and delivery process.
• As a Release Operations Developer, you will be responsible for interacting with the Development teams to make them deliver the services on time and will co-ordinate with both IT operations and developers.
• You will be responsible helping the Release Manager in the Release Management lifecycle that involves the stages such as scheduling the release, coordinating between teams, and deployment of release as per the schedule.
• As Release Operations Developer, you will have to co-ordinate the release after completing the testing stage and deployment stage, and work closely with the application development team, testing team, and production team. You will have to maintain proper coordination between these teams to update the project related information.
• You need to ensure usage of release management tools to manage the release.
• Overall, you will be concerned with planning, testing, tracking, release, deployment, communication, and risk management.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Plan the release of project deliverables and release life cycle.
• Communicate the project-related tasks, such as plans, timelines, requirements, etc., between different teams.
• Coordinate the release schedule and resources required depending upon the third-party applications, defect backlogs, planned releases, and infrastructure updates.
• Track the progress and find issues, if any. Always work to improve the process of release.
• Make sure that the release is planned according to the release schedule.
• Schedule the release readiness reviews before deployment and milestone reviews after each release.
• Create plans for the implementation and deployment as per the release schedule.
• Plan and give weekly updates on the release activities
• Help the Release Manager to lead the Go-Live activities to deploy the software successfully.
• Team up with relevant development teams responsible for building the automation tools used to develop and deploy the software.
• Involve in the CAB meetings to discuss the release schedules with the team and find roadblocks, if any.
• Maintain documentation related to procedures on build and release, various notifications lists, and dependencies.
• Make improvements in the methodologies used for configuration management and development of software that helps to find ways to use in configuration management.

Skills and qualifications:

• B.Tech in Computer Science or an equivalent degree
• Project management experience
• Atleast 5 years of relevant experience in working with DevOps and Agile methodologies
• Working knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle
• Expertise in computer programming
• Team management skills
• Experience using Application Release Automation tools
• Knowledge of traditional agile methodologies, including Scrum, Waterfall, or Kanban
• Good understanding of application infrastructure, system architecture, and operating system